Vacancies

Maiden Voyage is an award winning global solutions provider of female business travel solutions. We are obsessed with enabling women to get the most out of their business trips; making business travel both safe and social, globally. With clients in over 100 countries, our strategy is to 'join the dots' around the world in a collaborative manner forming partnerships with the best providers in the business travel realm. We have a strong passion for international relationships, a love of travel and the team is culturally diverse with ambassadors in over 80 international cities.

Personal Assistant (P/T – 22-30 hours p/w)

Role Description

Maternity cover. To work directly alongside our busy Founder/CEO/Sales Director, ensuring she is working as effectively and efficiently as possible.Reporting to: Founder/CEO/Sales Director

Person Specification

This role means that you will be pinnacle in the growth and evolution of this dynamic, fast-paced and innovative start up.This is an excellent opportunity for someone to work part time hours doing a job they are passionate about working in a highly motivated team.

About you

You are a dynamic, self-motivated, naturally driven, trustworthy, reliable individual with a passion for being someone’s right hand person. You will be confident in communicating in all ways, to all levels of people and will thrive in a busy, constantly changing, fun and international environment. You may even speak one or two additional languages! If you have worked for a sales/business development director before, this will be an added advantage.

Applicants should send CV, salary expectations and covering letter to erica@maiden-voyage.com closing date COB Friday 19th January 2018. We would like a handover with our current PA so the ideal start date would be around the 19th February. However, this is flexible.

Female Traveller Safety Trainers UK & USA

Due to our continued success, Maiden Voyage is expanding rapidly and we have a number of vacancies for world class trainers across the United Kingdom and USA.

As a freelance trainer you will be part of a top class delivery team, providing second to none female traveller safety training to some of the world's best known names.

Training assignments will vary in duration and can range from just a few hours to a number of days. Our client's travellers range from inexperienced travellers taking their first business trip to a capital city to individuals entering extreme risk destinations.

No two sessions are the same, the subject matter is highly interesting and every course is a humbling experience.

We will match our trainers to our clients to ensure the best cultural fit.

About you

Passionate about travel, you will have delivered outstanding travel safety training for a number of years. You are a seasoned traveller and you might possibly have lived as an expat during your career to date. You may have a specialism such as anti-kidnap, natural disasters, or law-enforcement but this is by no means essential. We are as interested to speak to people who have managed travel safety within their own organisations or have worked for the humanitarian sector, NGO's, military or the Government.

For us it's all about attitude so you will need to:

Have a flexible, pragmatic and positive attitude

Have outstanding attention to detail

Be able to read your audience and respond accordingly

Have years of travel experience with a full understanding of what can go wrong and how best to avoid it

Be able to adapt your communications style depending on your audience

Have integrity and loyalty at the heart of your values

Be able to show empathy and sensitivity. Our courses tend to bring to the fore very personal experiences

Be inspiring and credible with the ability to deliver the key messages in a memorable and engaging style.

If you'd like to know more, please send your CV, covering letter details of your location and day rate in the first instance to Erica Toase, Operations Manager email erica@maiden-voyage.com

Female-Friendly Hotels Partnerships Executives

As our member base grows, the demand for female-friendly hotels continues to increase amongst our individual and corporate members and TMC partners. We are looking for talented individuals to help us to identify and work with those hotels around the world that are the most suited to the female business traveller.

About you

With a minimum of three years experience working in a demanding hospitality sales and marketing role, you will understand the different revenue generating channels that exist in the hotel industry. You will be able to communicate effectively and confidently with your hotel peers and help them to understand the benefits of 'female-friendly' accreditation or training.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to have:

A positive and sunny disposition

Self motivation, drive and ambition

A highly commercial mindset

An inquisitive mind, always seeking new opportunities and be able to open new doors

Be passionate about sales and business development

In this role you will be dealing with global clients and should be comfortable dealing with other cultures in an international environment and you may even speak one or two other languages.

This role is commission only and would be ideally suited to somebody with a portfolio career.

If you'd like to know more, please send your CV, covering letter details of your location and day rate in the first instance to jobs@maiden-voyage.com

Online advertising Sales Executives

Due to unprecedented demand to access our global audience, a vacancy has arisen to sell advertising to new and existing partners across a range of sectors, including travel, beauty, well-being, fashion and travel accessories.

About you

With a minimum of one year's advertising sales experience in a digital environment, you will be able to quickly grasp the objectives of prospective advertisers and be able to propose relevant and effective online advertising campaigns to meet their needs.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to have:

At least one years's digital advertising experience

A thorough understanding of online/digital assets and how to measures performance

A positive and sunny disposition

Self motivation, drive and ambition

A highly commercial mindset

An inquisitive mind, always seeking new opportunities and be able to open new doors

Be passionate about sales and business development

Articulate both written and verbal

Conversant with luxury lifestyle brands

Confident telephone manner

Able to work towards and meet targets

In this role you will be dealing with global clients and should be comfortable dealing with other cultures in an international environment and you may even speak one or two other languages.

This role is commission only and would be ideally suited to somebody with a portfolio career.

If you'd like to know more, please send your CV, covering letter details of your location and day rate in the first instance to jobs@maiden-voyage.com

I think getting the website out to as many people as possible was the most challenging. I write my own content and promote it myself, so this keeps me very busy. I find the challenge really satisfying and I meet the most amazing women in the process of doing this. I also give talks and spoke at the Institute of Directors Women in Business conference in 2014.

Q. Has there been any particular ways in which BoardroomMum has helped other mothers?

As BoardroomMum is an on-line resource and information hub, we try to list as many useful events, services, opportunities and information that we think a working mum will find useful and helpful. Whilst thereâ€™s no physical network attached to it there is, as it is online, the opportunity for working mothers to dip in and out of it as needed.

Q. In your experience, do you think women who are mums could be less inclined to take the next step in their career if it entails a lot of travel?

I believe that could possibly be the case. However, a lot of it will depend on the support you have back at home in your absence when you are travelling.

Q.Are there are travel tips youâ€™ve learnt whilst juggling motherhood and business travel?

Planning, planning, planning! I donâ€™t travel too much but I have many friends who do. I keep lists, which I keep updated in case I am away so I donâ€™t have to recreate the wheel every time I leave.

Q. Throughout your career what has been your most memorable business trip?

I studied Modern Languages with International Marketing at university so I speak French and German fluently. I always enjoy travelling to countries where I can communicate really well and practice my languages. I think my most memorable business trip was to New York for about a day and a half. I was meeting my US colleagues for the first time and travelling outside of Europe. This was memorable, as I had mainly travelled on business before in Europe. However, I saw only a tiny part of New York and I don't think I had any time to suffer from any jet lag!